The Hopeful Optimist and The Hopeless Optimist
Discussing our present reality
My neighbor who I will call Vic and I had an engaging conversation while at the pool the other day. Vic is originally from Romania and lived there while experiencing life under the Communist regime. I was born in Minnesota and Vic and I are currently living in Florida.
I enjoy conversing with Vic as he has a grasp of reality that few Americans are willing or able to speak to. Most Americans are sleepwalking through life, unaware of the creeping tyranny we see engulfing society today.
I heard a quote the other day that I don’t know the source of but it goes like this:
20% of the people can think
30% of the people can think when shown
50% of the people would rather die than think
The source of the quote may have intended it as satire, but the punch line seems reasonable to Vic and I. It may not be an exaggeration at all. Where Vic and I differ is on whether people can move from the 50 percentile to the 30 percentile, and from the 30 percentile to the 20 percentile.
Vic takes the view of the hopeless optimist. Having lived in Communist Romania, Vic has seen harsh tactics used to enforce compliance. When you are a witness to a “justice” system that metes out a speedy death penalty for any infraction, a rational person chooses self-preservation over noncompliance. Vic argues that people find it better to continue living and enjoying the blessings of life rather than resist and have your precious life threatened or taken from you. This point is hard to argue with.
Vic’s optimism is based in the blessings that life has to offer. Life is good. However, Vic is not hopeful that tyranny can be resisted when a strong authoritative state takes power. On the other hand I think there is hope, but I will admit that hope may prove to be an irrational emotion under the current circumstances.
I think that in order to change course we must change how we educate our young. The public indoctrination system does not encourage people to think. In fact it tends to punish those who try. Under the current structure of society, parents are under pressure to enroll their children into public schools. Parents have little choice when they both have to work for a living to make ends meet. Parents hand their children off to strangers that educate their young according to standards established by the Board of Education.
John D. Rockefeller established the General Education Board in 1902 with the objective to educate students in vocationalism so that products of the education system would have the knowledge and skills to participate in the work force. Rockefeller wanted an “educated” society of workers. He was not interested in training thinkers.
John Taylor Gatto’s first book Dumbing Us Down goes into how we dumb children down through regimented indoctrination. Students are forced into grade levels based on age with no concern about whether a given student has any interest or passion for what is being presented. As a public school teacher for 25 years he participated in the dumbing down of American children in New York. He quit teaching because he said he couldn’t any longer continue to hurt the kids. He recognized the harms he was participating in and decided to become public education’s greatest critic. He has written numerous books on the topic of education since then, I suggest anyone facing the decision on where and how to educate their children should consider reading.
One thing that John points out from his research is the fall in the literacy rates of U.S. students since the adoption of the public education model. Something is clearly not working.
John contends that we can teach children the necessary skills of reading, writing and arithmetic in a matter of weeks for each subject. He gives the example of learning to drive a car. It does not take long for a motivated 16 year old to learn how to drive. John contends that motivation is key to learning. Students develop motivation for learning subjects at their own pace. We do not motivate children by forcing them to learn subjects at a given age, when their interests lie elsewhere. Some are motivated to learn art and music, others are motivated to lean science and physics. Some gravitate to history and philosophy. Forcing children to move through their education experience based on age without regard for motivation is doing a disservice to children. My friend Vic agrees with me and JTG on this point, but being a hopeless optimist he does not believe an alternative exists, or if it did, could be effectively rolled out.
Being a hopeful optimist, I disagree with Vic. But of course some major obstacles would have to be cleared away. For example we would have to eliminate the Boards of Education in every state. Then we eliminate the rote learning paradigm and replace it with a motivational model. The current social engineering aspect of public education would have to be halted immediately. We have to stop encouraging children to question their gender. Instead we should encourage students to question everything. Rather than insist children accept the present but unproven theory of gravity, we need to expose them to the alternative theory of magnetism. Instead of insisting children adopt the heliocentric model of the universe which is not proven, why not expose them to the flat earth concept? We should expose children to more ideas rather than less.
We need to bring back cursive to the classroom. Computers are great tools, but over relying on them in a public education environment is a mistake in my opinion. We should introduce children to Sacred Geometry and vortex mathematics. I understand that the tracing out of Sacred Geometrical patterns actually fosters left/right brain hemisphere connections. Vortex mathematics may be key to understanding the aether and free-energy technology.
This link is to an excellent article written by John Klar on the subject of teaching farming.
Most adults I speak to have no idea of what Sacred Geometry is. And most have never heard of vortex mathematics. Most school children know who Thomas Edison was, but they think Tesla is a car. There is an obvious agenda to our public education system, and teaching children to think is not part of the curriculum. This handicaps children and by extension handicaps society as a whole. Anyone who defends the U.S. public education system is oblivious to what it is doing to our children. It is dumbing them down. Parents who send their children to public schools have no idea how bad these schools are. Unfortunately even if they do, many don’t have the ability to homeschool their children.
I believe everyone should be exposed to vortex mathematics. Those who embrace the subject may go on to become great scientists and engineers.
And I also believe everyone should be exposed to Sacred Geometry, The Flower of Life and the Fibonacci Spiral.
In closing, Vic and I are in agreement on most topics we discuss, but we differ on whether we as a society will push back on Communism or not. Most don’t have the experience that Vic has had living in a Communist country. As a hopeful optimist, I think that eventually people will wake up to our encroaching reality and push back. In the months ahead, inflation and recession will make it harder for everyone to maintain a middle class lifestyle or even survive. In my view, the difficulties we face will cause people to begin to ask questions. Questions like why is food becoming so expensive or why are some things becoming unavailable in stores? Why are we seeing so many homeless on the streets? Why are so many dying suddenly with no given cause of death? Asking questions that matter is the first step of an awakening process.
I will leave you with today’s post from Clif High on X.
Vortex mathematics?! Something new to learn! I learned about Sacred Geometry in 2012. I loved this article. I read JTG’s books, too.
I taught public school students how to read at my kitchen table. I had high school students who came to learn after “school”. I think it all depends on how much we really want change. I want change and for everyone to be successful so it meant a little extra investment of my time, a little extra responsibility. I was fine with that.
I believe we have lost the battle and will never be able to recover. The Children are beyond lost, have no clue how to function in a world they have to know what they are doing. If it can't be solved by a cell phone then whats the purpose. I get that parents have no choice to educate their kids properly and most likely look at the educational system as a glorified baby sitter to keep the kids occupied so they can devote their time an energy working to provide for their families. In the long run the family structure will be destroyed and agreement on impotant issues will not be discussed and the children will turn into whatever they are brainwashed to believe from those educating them. What do you think are the odds of the kids turning out right? If the parents have a great deprogramming program the kids could be brought back to right thinking, but that will take a lot of work for them to be successful. When you have a system that is made to fail it's hard to think in can turn out good.
Those that do it right we applaud you. There is optimism and then there is reality. I'm a realist.
I can only go by what I see happening in front of me.